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“When Gentle Winds Grow Strong” (3 ways to turn emotional reaction into productive action)

The gentle winds grow strong. Tree fronds dance and sing. The sky dims its light with a gray shroud. As it cries tremendous drops that gently fall. But only Read more […]

January 5, 2013
Are you being served?

“Oh no, no. I can get it. I don’t need to be waited on!” Have you ever said these words? If so, I invite you to ask yourself why. Your answer might purport to have something to do with humility, or not placing yourself above another. May I challenge you on that? The experience of…

December 29, 2012
I’m honored to be a guest-blogger:

I’m honored to be a guest-blogger on a friend’s popular site. If you want to read about my experiences with three types of miracles, just click here: http://www.lynnehartke.com/2012/11/three-types-of-miracles.html

November 29, 2012
“Of Frasier’s Women” (A 50-second read about my conspiracy theory.)

With this blog entry, and through the lens of the hilarious and iconic TV show Frasier, I begin an exploration of the question below: Do we believe that there is a conspiracy to manipulate the great power of popular culture to desensitize the public and to teach us to glorify some over others? The Read…

November 4, 2012
Solving Problems vs. Building Relationships (A 60-second read about how I forgot Leadership 101.)

“Chef wants to talk to you,” read a recent email from a staff member in Uganda. The executive chef at our newest restaurant had asked that I call him. Knowing that he had worked more closely with my mom (since I left Uganda much earlier than she did after I hired him), I asked her…

November 1, 2012
10 Things I’m Grateful for on 10/10

That my kids are loving their new space in Nkumba. That Mom has been in Uganda for more than three months, making sure everything is just right for my kids. The night sky. When I look into it, I sense something that cannot be described by the characters on this computer screen, no matter how…

October 10, 2012
“Fight! Fight! Fight!” (A 3-minute reading on the boundlessness of spirit, and of boxing on a rooftop.)

When I am away from my Ugandan home and based here in San Diego, I have the privilege of boxing with a sparring partner four or five days a week. We do so on the rooftop of my 100-year-old building, overlooking the bay and downtown. We see sailboats bob in the water. We hear cruise-ships…

April 14, 2012
“27 things I’m grateful for.” (My monthly gratitude list.)

I get to see my kids in just a couple days! Thinking. Sitting in a café—whether one of Aidchild’s in Uganda, or one on a gray London street or on a sunny California porch—working on proposals such the creation of revolutionary clothes-washing machines, the use of boxing as a tool for peace Read more […]

February 27, 2012

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Nathaniel Dunigan, Ph.D., Ed.M.

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